Production Operations / O&M Engineer

Acuity•Reston, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Acuity, Inc. seeks a Production Operations / O&M Engineer to support the operation, sustainment, monitoring, and production readiness of a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role supports day-to-day production operations, incident response, service restoration, operational validation, reporting, and continuity activities across the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, approved target-platform environments, and dual-run operations. The Production Operations / O&M Engineer helps maintain reliable gateway performance, availability, traceability, and operational control across the current IBM webMethods baseline, target-platform environments, and approved dual-run operations. This role works within approved operations, security, change, monitoring, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and release processes to support stable and documented production outcomes. Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
5+ years of experience supporting production operations, application operations, platform operations, API platforms, middleware, or enterprise integration environments
Experience supporting 24x7 production operations, incident triage, service restoration, escalation coordination, and operational reporting
Experience using ServiceNow for incident, service request, change, problem, and RCA documentation
Experience troubleshooting production issues involving availability, latency, routing, connectivity, errors, authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, or configuration
Experience supporting monitoring, alerting, dashboards, log analysis, performance reporting, and operational trend analysis, including AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or comparable observability tools
Experience supporting patching, vulnerability remediation, certificate updates, backup/restore validation, disaster recovery exercises, or platform currency activities
Experience performing post-change validation, smoke testing, regression checks, readiness reviews, and evidence collection for production changes
Experience supporting IBM webMethods API Gateway or comparable enterprise API gateway products such as Kong, Google Apigee, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, Microsoft Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway, IBM API Connect, Red Hat 3scale, Axway Amplify, WSO2 API Manager, Tyk, or similar platforms
Strong written communication skills for incident documentation, RCA materials, operational reports, runbooks, validation evidence, and knowledge transfer
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability

Responsibilities

Monitor enterprise API gateway environments, including the current IBM webMethods baseline, hybrid on-prem/cloud components, OpenShift/containerized gateway components, and approved target-platform or dual-run environments, and support 24x7 production operations, alert response, and service continuity
Triage incidents and service requests, assess operational impact, assign severity, and coordinate timely response through approved ticketing processes
Support restoration of gateway services by troubleshooting availability, routing, connectivity, latency, error-rate, authentication, authorization, telemetry, and configuration issues
Document incidents, service requests, corrective actions, resolution status, and operational evidence in ServiceNow
Support root cause analysis for production incidents, including event timelines, contributing factors, recurrence risks, corrective actions, and follow-up validation
Support patching, vulnerability remediation, certificate updates, configuration changes, and platform currency events affecting gateway operations
Validate monitoring, alerting, dashboards, log flows, backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery procedures, and operational handoffs after applicable changes
Perform post-change smoke testing, regression checks, operational readiness validation, and production-readiness evidence collection
Prepare operational reports, availability inputs, incident trends, RCA materials, runbook updates, and knowledge-transfer artifacts